oatmal cereal ????

[Tatumsmom]

Hi everyone,
just a guestion on baby cereal, my dd will be 6 months on June 12 and we've started introducing cereal. I've tried rice cereal in the past and she got a bit gassy, so  a friend said to try barley or oatmeal. I tried the oatmeal and she seemed to like it. Just wondering if this is o.k. Does it matter what cereal you start with.
KH

[ryan's mum]

oatmeal cereal is fine , we also started on rice cereal and it just made Ryan constipated , although he was constipated anyway the switch helped , we found he was digesting it better.

[notenoughshelfspace]

My little one always liked oatmeal and Barley better than rice and we had no problems with it at all.

[Ennypen]

William too - he much prefers his oatmeal/porridge and its just fine!

H xxx

[Marisa's Mom]

I don't think it matters which cereal you use. Or doc told us to get a variety pack to try, and use whichever one works best with our LO. She seemed to prefer oatmeal cereal more than rice cereal, so we stuck with the oatmeal. Never had any problems with it.

Later on, when we started adding other solids, we would sometimes mix it in with the oatmeal cereal.

[Moongrinner]

Just a thought:

I've been told to avoid any and all wheat for the first year, especially if allergies run in the family. Also, I only feed my baby organic foods because I don't want her eating genetically modified foods and all those pesticides and fungacides and insecticides that they grow conventional foods with here in the US.